The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human NatureKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 17 abr 2001 - 528 páginas At once a pioneering study of evolution and an accessible and lively reading experience, a book that offers the most convincing—and radical—explanation for how and why the human mind evolved. Consciousness, morality, creativity, language, and art: these are the traits that make us human. Scientists have traditionally explained these qualities as merely a side effect of surplus brain size, but Miller argues that they were sexual attractors, not side effects. He bases his argument on Darwin’ s theory of sexual selection, which until now has played second fiddle to Darwin’ s theory of natural selection, and draws on ideas and research from a wide range of fields, including psychology, economics, history, and pop culture. Witty, powerfully argued, and continually thought-provoking, The Mating Mind is a landmark in our understanding of our own species. |
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... mental abilities . For example , if Neanderthals are found to share some of the same genes for language , art , music ... human psychology . I cannot yet show you the many genes that must underlie each of the human mental adaptations ...
... mental abilities . For example , if Neanderthals are found to share some of the same genes for language , art , music ... human psychology . I cannot yet show you the many genes that must underlie each of the human mental adaptations ...
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How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature Geoffrey Miller. Mental Traits as Fitness Indicators Fitness indicator theories like Rowe and Houle's model can help us to understand the evolution of the human mind . Our capacities ...
How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature Geoffrey Miller. Mental Traits as Fitness Indicators Fitness indicator theories like Rowe and Houle's model can help us to understand the evolution of the human mind . Our capacities ...
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... human nature all took place in the Pleistocene . After the Pleistocene came ... mental abilities that our closest ape relatives do not share . The Holocene ... mental capacities of our species were physically contained within the African ...
... human nature all took place in the Pleistocene . After the Pleistocene came ... mental abilities that our closest ape relatives do not share . The Holocene ... mental capacities of our species were physically contained within the African ...
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Darwins Prodigy | 33 |
The Runaway Brain | 68 |
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The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature Geoffrey Miller Vista previa restringida - 2001 |
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The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature Geoffrey F. Miller Vista de fragmentos - 2000 |
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ability adaptations advertise aesthetic altruism ancestors animals apes beauty benefits biological biologists birds body bowerbirds breasts Buss capacities chimpanzees choosy cognitive color copulation costly costs courtship courtship behavior courtship displays courtship effort cultural Darwin David Buss Dawkins equilibrium evolutionary psychology evolved through sexual explain favor female choice Fisher fitness indicators function genes genetic handaxes handicap principle heritable hominid human evolution human mental human mind human sexual idea individuals innovations language mate choice modern mutations natural selection neoteny offspring penis penises Pinker Pleistocene predators predict primates produce proteanism random reciprocity reproductive Richard Dawkins runaway brain runaway process runaway sexual selection selection pressures sensory bias sex differences sexual choice sexual ornaments sexual partners sexual preferences sexual reproduction sexual selection sexual selection theory sexually attractive signals social species sperm status strategy survival tails Thornhill traits University Press unpredictable verbal courtship vocabulary women Zahavi
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Not By Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution Peter J. Richerson,Robert Boyd Vista previa restringida - 2008 |
Cognition and Emotion: From Order to Disorder Michael J. Power,Tim Dalgleish No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2008 |